{"id":7687,"date":"2010-10-13T13:54:22","date_gmt":"2010-10-13T18:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/?p=7687"},"modified":"2014-05-22T13:36:03","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T18:36:03","slug":"apple-heading-back-to-the-mac-on-oct-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/7687-apple-heading-back-to-the-mac-on-oct-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple heading \u201cBack to the Mac\u201d on Oct. 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7688\" title=\"Oct2010AppleEvent\" src=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Oct2010AppleEvent.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Oct2010AppleEvent.png 300w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Oct2010AppleEvent-178x120.png 178w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Oct2010AppleEvent-284x191.png 284w, https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Oct2010AppleEvent-190x128.png 190w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Between the iPad, the iPhone 4 and iOS 4, this has certainly been the year for Apple\u2019s mobile offerings. Though we had the requisite upgrades to the MacBook, iMac, and Mac Pro lines, along with a pretty significant revamp of the Mac mini, the Macintosh platform has taken a back seat this year to its touch-based cousin.<\/p>\n<p>This event, though, is supposedly going to change that; apparently, Apple wants to talk about \u201cwhat\u2019s new for the Mac.\u201d While the possibility of new hardware exists, the lion photo seems to suggest we\u2019ll be getting a peek at OSX 10.7, which\u2014keeping in with the tradition of naming OS X versions after big cats\u2014could very well be code-named \u201cLion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other than that, details are kind of scarce. What else does Apple have up its sleeve? We\u2019ll have to find out on the 20th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between the iPad, the iPhone 4 and iOS 4, this has certainly been the year for Apple\u2019s mobile offerings. 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